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Fünfer - Jost of Silinen
| Issuer | Bishopric of Sion |
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| Year | 1482-1496 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | ✠ IODOC · D : SILINO : EP` SEDVN (Translation: Jost of Silinen, Bishop of Sion.) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Jost of Silinen held the bishopric of Sion under perpetual political siege — his tenure was defined less by ecclesiastical administration than by his entanglement in the struggle between the Valais communities and Savoyard influence. He was ultimately expelled from his see in 1496 after the canton sided against him, ending a reign marked by near-constant conflict with the local patriciate. Small silver issues like this Fünfer circulated in a diocese that was simultaneously a temporal lordship, and their brief window of production closed not by monetary policy but by political exile.